Allen Freer

Acknowledgements Thanks are due to the authors, their representatives and publishers mentioned in the following list fór their kind permission to reproduce copyright matériái: W. H. Allén & Co. and Alán Sillitoe fór 'The Cross-country Race' from The Loneliness of the Long-distance Runner by...

Whilst compiling the prose anthology Persons, Places and Things, it became increasingly apparent to me that there existed a number of poems and verses which explored practically the same kind of humán experience that the prose centred upon. Sometimes the similarity was extraordinarily close as in...